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 ELIZABETHTON, TN Posted by:  vhasler
N 36° 20.866 W 082° 13.116
17S E 390652 N 4023211
The rayon plants have closed, but Elizabethton has increased its tourism and outdoor recreation.
Waymark Code: WM9WWG
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 10/07/2010
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ELIZABETHTON (1,575 alt, 12,786 pop.) is the seat of Carter County, which was named for Landon Carter. The town was named for his wife. It is an industrial town in Happy Valley at the confluence
of the Watauga and Dee Rivers, an area known as Watauga Old Fields, because there had once been a Cherokee village here. The North American Rayon and the American Bemberg Corporations have plants
along the north side of the Glanzstoif Highway about one-half mile west of the courthouse; rayon yarn is manufactured here from Canadian fir pulp, and from cotton linters.
The larger part of the stock of both companies is owned by the German cartel, and the plants operate under their patents. Other industrial products of Elizabeth are twine, lumber, boxes, overalls, and flour.
----- TENNESSEE - A Guide to the State (third printing 1949)
Both rayon plants were closed in the 1990's, but Elizabethton has held onto its population, now around 13,800, in smaller industrial machining and parts, health care, government, and education.
Several points of interest around Elizabethton listed in this American Guidebook have been waymarked separately.
Book: Tennessee
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 317
Year Originally Published: 1939
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